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"departure of chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon"

"appointment of retired general John Kelly as chief of staff"

"His personal lawyer John Dowd"

"Dowd and his colleagues, Ty Cobb... charged with navigating the president through his personal legal problems"

"Dowd and his colleagues... Jay Sekulow... charged with navigating the president through his personal legal problems"

"The White House counsel Don McGahn—representing the White House rather than... the president himself"

"Roy Cohn, his old New York friend, attorney, and tough-guy mentor"

"Bobby Kennedy had been his brother's attorney general and hatchet man; he protected JFK"

"Steve Bannon, the political strategist who, perhaps more than anyone else, was responsible for Trump's victory"

"Hope Hicks, the White House communications director... working as Donald Trump's spokesperson"

"Chief of Staff Reince Priebus"

"Bannon—a witness of fact—spent hundreds of hours with his lawyers preparing for his testimony before the special counsel"

"she had already appeared before the special counsel"

"On February 27, 2018, testifying before the House Intelligence Committee"

"Hicks had been elevated to White House communications director"

"As the relationship between Hicks and Porter unfolded in the fall of 2017"

"His girlfriend Samantha Dravis had moved in with Porter in the summer of 2017"

"Porter had, before the age of forty, two bitter ex-wives, at least one of whom he had beaten"

"Raffel had come into the White House in April 2017 as the exclusive spokesperson for the president's son-in-law Jared Kushner"

"Epstein and Trump had been close friends—playboys in arms, as it were—for more than a decade"

"had bid $41 million for the property and bought it out from under Epstein through an entity called Trump Properties LLC"

"entirely financed by Deutsche Bank"

"his former campaign manager Paul Manafort"

"his former national security advisor Michael Flynn"

"the eager-beaver junior adviser George Papadopoulos"

"campaign official Rick Gates"

"eep frustration with his father-in-law. He stayed expressionless... when Trump went off the rails"

"his daughter Ivanka, Kushner's wife"

"his daughter Ivanka, Kushner's wife"

"Apollo Global Management... had provided the Kushner Companies... with $184 million in financing"

"the family real estate group that had been managed by Kushner himself"

"Kushner's own lawyer was Abbe Lowell"

"more than five hundred companies and separate entities in which Donald Trump had been an officer"

"After his election, he had an unseemly meeting with Preet Bharara"

"Michael Cohen, Trump's personal lawyer and a Trump Organization officer"

"Michael Cohen, Trump's personal lawyer"

"As for Trump, with friends like Bannon, who needed enemies?"

"Bannon went to Cambridge to see Larry Summers... the meeting happened at Harvard instead"

"The president's chief political aides were Corey Lewandowski"

"The president's chief political aides were... David Bossie"

"Trump's son-in-law had the president's full attention... Kushner's message"

"all checks issued by the Trump Organization were personally signed by Donald Trump himself"

"Chief of Staff John Kelly... had joined the White House, replacing Reince Priebus, Trump's first chief of staff, in Aug 2017"

"replacing Reince Priebus, Trump's first chief of staff"

"grabbed Trump adviser Corey Lewandowski"

"Cohen, who billed himself as Trump's personal lawyer"

"Trump, riding Bannon's campaign—with Bannon's primacy soon one of the bitterest pills for Trump to swallow—won the presidency"

"Bannon had known Cohen during the campaign"

"Bannon, coincidentally, also stayed at the Regency on his frequent trips to New York"

"raided the home and office of Michael Cohen, as well as a room he was using in the Regency Hotel"